Jordan Hubbard has announced the release of FreeNAS 9.3, a brand-new version of the specialist FreeBSD-based operating system for network-attached storage (NAS) systems: "After months of work and close to a thousand bugs resolved, we are very proud and pleased to announce the official release of FreeNAS 9.3. Please come and get it while it's hot! We have also prepared some important upgrade notes for this release which even folks coming from 9.3-BETA may wish to read. If you are one of the folks who jumped on board with 9.3-BETA then you need merely check for and apply the update that will be waiting for you - this will update you to 9.3-RELEASE and automatically jump you to the 9.3-STABLE update train (note: if you got the very last update already, you may need to simply switch manually to the 9.3-STABLE train). If you are not currently on 9.3, then simply grab the GUI or ISO update image and update in the usual way; this is the last time you will need to do so!" See the release announcement and release notes for further information. Download: FreeNAS-9.3-RELEASE-x64.iso (381MB, SHA256).

Jordan Hubbard has announced the release of FreeNAS 9.2.1, an updated version of the project's free network-attached storage (NAS) system based on FreeBSD and the ZFS file system: "After one beta, two release candidates, and many nightly builds (which many of you tested, to our everlasting gratitude) we are, as always, proud to announce the public availability of FreeNAS 9.2.1-RELEASE. FreeNAS 9.2.0 was a great release, and we're pleased to say that FreeNAS 9.2.1 is even better. Since 9.2.0 was released, we have fixed over 189 bugs, added new features, polished the UI, and improved the performance of FreeNAS even further. The documentation has also been updated for 9.2.1, though the source code is still a useful reference for features like the web API, which comes with several examples in the source tree. For the first time, we are also publishing an errata list for 9.2.1 so people will know about known issues that were not deemed severe enough to be 'show stoppers' for this release." Read the rest of the release announcement which includes detailed release notes. Download (SHA256): FreeNAS-9.2.1-RELEASE-x64.iso (215MB).

Jordan Hubbard has announced the release of FreeNAS 9.2.0, a FreeBSD-based operating system that enables the users to build networked storage: "After one early beta and two release candidates, it gives us great pleasure to announce the full and final release of FreeNAS 9.2.0. As implied from the series of pre-releases, this release has benefitted substantially from a great deal of public testing as well as several months of 'living on' testing we ourselves have done on a wide variety of hardware. This is, without a doubt, the best release of FreeNAS yet. Since 9.1.1 was released, we have fixed 268 bugs in the bug tracker, as well as countless others that were found and fixed independently of the bug tracking system. We have also made a number of enhancements to the UI and generally done our best to bring more polish to the FreeNAS system, both in usability and performance." Continue to the release announcement to find out more. Download (SHA256) from here: FreeNAS-9.2.0-RELEASE-x64.iso (163MB).

Jordan Hubbard has announced the release of FreeNAS 9.1.1, an open-source storage platform based on FreeBSD: "The FreeNAS development team is delighted to announce the general release of FreeNAS 9.1.1. This release offers small, but significant, improvements to FreeNAS 9.1.0. A number of cosmetic issues, user interface tracebacks and outright bugs (such as 32-bit plugins not working) have been addressed since 9.1 was released. A few features that were known to be broken, such as AIO in Samba 3 or IPv6 in plugin jails, were also disabled to avoid people shooting their feet off. Finally, a number of important ZFS stability fixes were also picked up from the TrueOS repo during the creation of 9.1.1-RELEASE. Thank you for all your participation and assistance during the 9.1.1 beta and release candidate process, this release benefited significantly from your suggestions and bug reports!" Here is the brief release announcement with a link to a full changelog. Download: FreeNAS-9.1.1-RELEASE-x64.iso (349MB, SHA256), FreeNAS-9.1.1-RELEASE-x86.iso (264MB, SHA256).

Josh Paetzel has announced the release of FreeNAS 9.1.0, an open-source and BSD-based NAS solution that enables the users to build networked storage devices on a multitude of hardware platforms: "The FreeNAS development team is delighted to announce the general release of FreeNAS 9.1.0. This release offers massive improvements to the usability, extensibility, stability, and performance of FreeNAS. Everything from the web user interface, plugin management system, base operating system, ZFS file system, and even the source control used to manage the project has been substantially improved. With FreeNAS 9.1.0, iXsystems sets a new level of excellence and power in open source storage solutions... The volume creation interface has been completely replaced with a new wizard that assists the user in creating the most ideal storage pool and optimal setup for the number of disks available, also helping those unfamiliar with ZFS to make correct early configuration decisions and avoid painful rebuilds later." Check the full release announcement for more information. The ISO images as well as the PDF documentation are available from the download page (SHA256): FreeNAS-9.1.0-RELEASE-x64.iso (306MB).

Josh Paetzel has announced the release of FreeNAS 8.3.1, an open-source storage platform that supports sharing across Windows, Apple, and UNIX-like systems: "The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FreeNAS 8.3.1-RELEASE. FreeNAS 8.3.1 is based on FreeBSD 8.3 with version 28 of the ZFS file system, and features volume based encryption for ZFS. There have been no major changes between 8.3.1-RC1 and RELEASE, mostly bug fixes and minor usability improvements to the GUI. Please familiarize yourself extensively with the encryption features of FreeNAS before using them. Doing the wrong thing can end up in a state where the volume is hidden behind very difficult-to-break AES 256 encryption. Many modern CPUs feature hardware support for encryption. If hardware support is available FreeNAS will use it." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information and useful links to documentation pages. Download (SHA256): FreeNAS-8.3.1-RELEASE-x64.iso (113MB), FreeNAS-8.3.1-RELEASE-x86.iso (107MB).

Josh Paetzel has announced the release of FreeNAS 8.3.0, a free and open-source Network-Attached Storage (NAS) operating system based on FreeBSD: "The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE. FreeNAS 8.3.0 is based on FreeBSD 8.3 with version 28 of the ZFS file system. This is a major milestone in FreeNAS development, bringing in the plugin system with ZFS version 28. Development of the FreeNAS 8.2 branch has come to a halt, as both ZFS version 15 as well as FreeBSD 8.2 are no longer supported. There have been no major changes between 8.3.0-RC1 and RELEASE, mostly bug fixes and minor usability improvements to the GUI." See the release announcement and release notes for further information. Download (SHA256): FreeNAS-8.3.0-RELEASE-x86.iso (103MB) FreeNAS-8.3.0-RELEASE-amd64.iso (112MB).

The fast and furious development of FreeNAS, a FreeBSD-based operating system designed to provide free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services, continues with a new beta: "The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA3. This is the last planned public beta of 8.3.0 as it moves towards the final. This beta includes a re-factoring of the Active Directory and LDAP integration. It has a rework of serial port support, adding the ability to set the serial port speed. The NFS sharing was re-factored in BETA2 with an eye towards maintaining compatibility with sharing schemes set up in previous FreeNAS releases. The re-factored sharing is more powerful and flexible than in previous releases, while enforcing the OS-based rules. Support for the LSI 'skinny' RAID controllers was added, including the 9265/9285." Here is the full release announcement. Download: FreeNAS-8.3.0-BETA3-x86.iso (160MB, SHA256), FreeNAS-8.3.0-BETA3-x64.iso (170MB, SHA256).

Josh Paetzel has announced the availability of the first beta build of FreeNAS 8.3.0: "The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA1. This is the first public release of the 8.3.0 branch of FreeNAS, which upgrades the underlying base system of FreeNAS to FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p7. This update brings with it Version 28 of the ZFS file system, as well as a number of updates to the drivers and utilities in the base system. FreeNAS 8.2.0 brought with it the ability to install plugins, this functionality is present in FreeNAS 8.3.0 as well. At the moment upgrading the plugin jail to the version included with FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA1 will cause plugins to stop working and will require re-installation and reconfiguration of all plugins to resume normal operation. Our recommendation at this time is to avoid upgrading working components of the plugin system." See the release announcement for notes on new ZFS file system features. Download: FreeNAS-8.3.0-BETA1-x86.iso (156MB, SHA256), FreeNAS-8.3.0-BETA1-x64.iso (168MB, SHA256).

After four beta versions and one release candidate, FreeNAS 8.2.0 is available for download, which is a free, open-source, Network-Attached Storage (NAS) operating system based on FreeBSD. From the release announcement: "The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FreeNAS 8.2.0-RELEASE. FreeNAS 8.2.0-RELEASE is the first release on new branch of code that incorporates tighter integration between the ZFS command line and the FreeNAS GUI. This release also features the ability to run arbitrary services and interact with them through the FreeNAS GUI in a FreeBSD jail. This jail allows a wide range of third party software to be run on top of FreeNAS, using the PBI format from PC-BSD or FreeBSD packages or ports, as well as official FreeNAS plugins. Additional features include: support for iSCSI target reload; GUI support for SAS and FC multipath hardware; WebShell accessible from the FreeNAS web interface; ZFS scrubs are configurable from the GUI...." Read the press release, the release notes, and an important update to 8.2.0-RELEASE-p1. Download: FreeNAS-8.2.0-RELEASE-p1-x86.iso (96MB, SHA256), FreeNAS-8.2.0-RELEASE-p1-x64.iso (104MB, SHA256).

Josh Paetzel has announced the availability of the fourth beta release of FreeNAS 8.2.0, a specialist FreeBSD-based operating system which provides free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "The development team is pleased to announce FreeNAS 8.2.0-BETA4, to upgrade plugins, as well as the plugin jail itself. There have been numerous bug fixes and improvements over previous beta releases. The GUI upgrade format changed in 8.2.0-BETA3 from xz to txz. What this means is that if you are attempting to do a GUI upgrade to 8.2.0-BETA4 from 8.2.0-BETA3 use the .txz version of the GUI_Upgrade file. If you are upgrading from any previous version use the .xz file." Read the rest of the detailed release notes for more information. Download: FreeNAS-8.2.0-BETA4-x86.iso (153MB, SHA256), FreeNAS-8.2.0-BETA4-x64.iso (163MB, MD5).

Josh Paetzel has announced the availability of the third beta build of FreeNAS 8.2.0, a specialist operating systems providing free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "I've just completed uploading FreeNAS 8.2.0-BETA3. Upgrades from BETA2 work, but most likely any plugin stuff that is working in BETA2 will stop working. You'll want to use the plugins in the BETA3 directory with this beta, don't mix and match. Notable highlights are a complete re-factor of plugins, iSCSI target reload, and the Samba security fix. The 8.2 branch of FreeNAS introduces many functional changes when compared with the 8.0.x releases. ZFS can be manipulated from the CLI, and changes for supported items tracked by FreeNAS will be reflected in the GUI. zvols, datasets, and entire volumes can be created, destroyed, or manipulated on the CLI and will be propagated to the GUI." The release announcement. Download: FreeNAS-8.2.0-BETA3-x86.iso (94.5MB, SHA256), FreeNAS-8.2.0-BETA3-x64.iso (101MB, SHA256).

Josh Paetzel has announced the availability of the second beta release of FreeNAS 8.2.0, a specialist operating systems providing free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "It has been a long road, and it's not anywhere close to being done, but FreeNAS is a step closer to a release with plugins. I'm pleased to announce on behalf of the FreeNAS team, FreeNAS 8.2.0-BETA2, available for immediate download from SourceForge. The 8.2 branch of FreeNAS introduces many functional changes when compared with the 8.0.x releases. ZFS can be manipulated from the CLI, and changes for supported items tracked by FreeNAS will be reflected in the GUI. Zvols, datasets, and entire volumes can be created, destroyed, or manipulated on the CLI and will be propagated to the GUI. The GUI now supports active-passive multipath capable hardware, which targets mainly SAS drives on dual expander backplanes." Read the full release announcement which includes a complete list of new features. Download: FreeNAS-8.2.0-BETA2-x86.iso (95.9MB, SHA256), FreeNAS-8.2.0-BETA2-x64.iso (102MB, SHA256).

Josh Paetzel has announced the release of FreeNAS 8.0.4, the latest update of the project's FreeBSD-based operating system which provides free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "FreeNAS 8.0.4-RELEASE is now available for immediate download. Changes since 8.0.3-RELEASE: update ataidle from 2.6 to 2.72 based on maintainer's recommendation due to interoperability with 2.6 and certain chipsets; fix the inadyn port so that it works on i386; fix a regression for DHCP users where /etc/resolv.conf would be nulled out if DNS servers weren't specified in the GUI; disable AIO by default and change the default AIO read / write size to 4 kB; add in logic to start lockd and mountd when NFS is enabled so that FreeNAS doesn't need to be manually prodded to start the services, or rebooted in order for the services to become effective." Read the detailed release notes for a complete list of changes and fixes. Download: FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-x86.iso (94.1MB, SHA256), FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-x64.iso (101MB, SHA256).

James Nixon has announced the release of FreeNAS 8.0.3, the latest update of the project's FreeBSD-based system designed to provide free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services. What's new? "Use smaller block and frag sizes for /etc and /var; import a build tweak to nuke /var/db/pkg to save 7 MB of space; other build tweaks to remove non-essential features and packages from the image; disable output to /var/log/console.log in non-debug builds to avoid unnecessary duplication in /var/log/messages; upgrade ATAidle to 2.6; upgrade Nut and net-snmp to 2.6.2 and 5.7.1, respectively; import Omnibus build system fixes to fix the fact that the 8.0.3-BETA1 image was broken due to the environment of the build machine where it was produced on; increase the /var size from 74 MB to 160 MB so that Samba will be able to service requests copying large sets of files...." Read the rest of the release notes for a complete changelog. Download: FreeNAS-8.0.3-RELEASE-x86.iso (95.0MB, SHA256), FreeNAS-8.0.3-RELEASE-x64.iso (100MB, SHA256).

Josh Paetzel has announced the release of FreeNAS 8.0.2, a bug-fix update of the project's FreeBSD-based operating system providing free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "The FreeNAS team is proud to announce FreeNAS 8.0.2, a follow-up release to 8.0.1. Major changes since 8.0.1-RELEASE: the email subsystem was not working correctly in 8.0.1-RELEASE, which resulted in the system not being able to send mail, as well as malfunction of the alerting system in the GUI. Changes since 8.0.1-RELEASE: allow decimal numbers for a dataset quota; fix setting recursive ACLs; start ProFTPd after ix-ssl to use the correct SSL certificate; use wildcards in cron and rsync jobs instead of listing all values; fix case in iSCSI targets to match the behavior specified by RFC 3722." Here is the complete release announcement. Download (SHA256) links: FreeNAS-8.0.2-RELEASE-i386.iso (102MB) FreeNAS-8.0.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso (109MB).

Josh Paetzel has announced the release of FreeNAS 8.0.1, a new stable version of the project's FreeBSD-based operating system providing free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "On behalf of the FreeNAS development team I'm pleased to announce FreeNAS 8.0.1-RELEASE. Changes since 8.0-RELEASE: divorced the volume members in the database from the FreeBSD devices; support exporting ZFS zvols (virtual devices) as device extents via iSCSI; the GUI now has an event notification system; the email backend has been refactored; many many changes in the GUI to help it validate and sanitize inputs that are passed to the backend daemons; added UPS functionality; added rsync client and server functionality; added the ability to schedule cron jobs in the GUI; vastly improved and reworked snapshot replication." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details and some errata notes. Download (SHA256): FreeNAS-8.0.1-RELEASE-i386.iso (102MB) FreeNAS-8.0.1-RELEASE-amd64.iso (110MB).

Josh Paetzel has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeNAS 8.0.1, a FreeBSD-based system providing free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "I'm pleased to announce FreeNAS 8.0.1-RC2, available for immediate download. Major changes: the mail subsystem has been rewritten due to major interop issues with the previous implementation of the mail subsystem and various mail server setups (including gMail); the iSCSI target daemon (istgt) has been updated to address interoperability issues with VMware ESXi; fixed a bug where a failed upgrade after a config was uploaded was resulting in the system 'reverting' to using the uploaded config instead of the previous running config; save config now uses a hostname/date combination in the file name; fixed a bug with replacing devices in place; added a confirmation password field for dyndns...." The release announcement comes with a complete changelog and a list of fixed bugs. Download (MD5): FreeNAS-8.0.1-RC2-i386.iso (101MB) FreeNAS-8.0.1-RC2-amd64.iso (109MB).

Josh Paetzel has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeNAS 8.0.1, a FreeBSD-based system providing free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "I'm pleased to announce that FreeNAS 8.0.1 Release Candidate 1 is available for download. This is the first release candidate for FreeNAS 8.0.1. At this point, we are no longer including new features or functionality into 8.0.1. From here on out, only bug fixes and regressions will be addressed. Major changes: there is no longer a default password: the GUI incorporates an alert system in the form of a 'stoplight' that is visible from every page in the GUI; Netatalk 2.2 is included, which provides support for Time Machine backups to OS X Lion clients; deleting ZFS volumes is now really an export operation...." Check out the full release announcement for a full changelog and errata notes. Download (MD5): FreeNAS-8.0.1-RC1-i386.iso (108MB) FreeNAS-8.0.1-RC1-amd64.iso (112MB).

Josh Paetzel has announced the availability of the last (again!) beta release of FreeNAS 8.0.1, a FreeBSD-based system providing free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "This is the last beta planned for the 8.0.1 release cycle. This line was present in the beta 3 release notes as well. Beta 3 contained several fairly significant bugs, and a patch release was planned to address them, unfortunately due to a myriad of issues that patch release was delayed enough that doing another beta made more sense than any sort of patch. Changes since beta 3: ACLs and UNIX file system permissions work properly on both UFS and ZFS volumes; changes to link aggregations which resulted in a regression in functionality have been reverted...." See the release announcement for a list of bug fixes completed in this release. Download (SHA256): FreeNAS-8.0.1-BETA4-i386.iso (107MB), FreeNAS-8.0.1-BETA4-amd64.iso (111MB).

Josh Paetzel has announced that the third and final beta release of FreeNAS 8.0.1, a FreeBSD-based system providing free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services, is ready for testing: "I'm pleased to announce the availability of FreeNAS 8.0.1-BETA3. This is the last beta planned for the 8.0.1 release cycle. The image size has been increased from 1 GB to 2 GB. As more features have been added to the system it has crept towards the max size. The translations have brought this to a head, the current image just barely fits in 1 GB, but the translation effort is about 50% finished. Since an image size bump is inevitable, it's happening now. Due to this size change the system now requires a 2 GB device to install to. Furthermore, the GUI upgrade is not possible. Booting from the CD will work to do the upgrade." Read the release announcement for a full list of changes since beta 2. Download (SHA256): FreeNAS-8.0.1-BETA3-i386.iso (107MB), FreeNAS-8.0.1-BETA3-amd64.iso (110MB).

Josh Paetzel has announced the availability of the second beta release of FreeNAS 8.0.1: "Hot on the tail of the first BETA I am proud to announce 8.0.1-BETA2. This is the second of three planned betas in the 8.0.1 release cycle. Most of the changes from BETA1 are bug fixes. In particular several bugs have been fixed in the migrations from 8.0-RELEASE. The system was not relabeling ZFS volumes to use the new devicename-independent naming scheme correctly in BETA1. Also the database migration scripts in BETA1 do not migrate NFS shares properly. The upgrade/migration scripts have been improved. In previous versions failure of the database upgrade was easy to miss, and it could leave the system booting to single-user mode with error messages that had nothing to do with the root issue. This has been rectified. If a database migration does fail, the error message will be clear as to what happened." Here is the complete release announcement. Download (SHA256): FreeNAS-8.0.1-BETA2-i386.iso (102MB), FreeNAS-8.0.1-BETA2-amd64.iso (108MB).

Josh Paetzel has announced the availability of the first beta release of FreeNAS 8.0.1, a FreeBSD-based operating system providing free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "I'm pleased to announce 8.0.1-BETA1, the first preview of the upcoming 8.0.1-Release for FreeNAS. The changes from 8.0-Release: upgraded software stack across the board, new version of Django, Dojo, istgt and many other software upgrades; the new version of istgt fixes issues people were having in a Hyper-V environment; vastly improved remote replication, with much better error notification as well as the ability to recover from failure situations; device names are no longer hard-wired in the database; users can now be given an email address, making them more useful for use in cron jobs; the ability to add cron jobs via the GUI is now present...." See the release announcement for a complete list of changes and errata. Download (SHA256): FreeNAS-8.0.1-BETA1-i386.iso (103MB), FreeNAS-8.0.1-BETA1-amd64.iso (105MB).

Josh Paetzel has announced the release of FreeNAS 8.0, a FreeBSD-based system providing free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "I'm pleased to announce the availability of FreeNAS 8.0-RELEASE. FreeNAS 8.0-RELEASE supports NFS, CIFS, AFP, FTP and TFTP as file sharing mechanisms. It also supports exporting devices via iSCSI as an iSCSI target. Active Directory or LDAP for user authentication. The ZFS and UFS2 file systems are supported. ZFS is the primary file system and enables usage of many features, including quotas, snapshots, compression and replication that are not available in UFS2. This release is based on FreeBSD 8.2, but this version of FreeNAS is called 8.0 as there are future plans to add functionality that will get the versions catch up." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details and errata. Download (SHA256): FreeNAS-8.0-RELEASE-i386.iso (103MB), FreeNAS-8.0-RELEASE-amd64.iso (105MB).

Josh Paetzel has announced the availability of the fifth release candidate for FreeNAS 8.0, a FreeBSD-based system providing free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "This wasn't supposed to happen, but we fixed so many issues in RC4 that we really wanted to push something out to the community. This image is being handed over to QA for the final run-through. In a perfect world the release will be this image with polishing work. Two major bits that are new are volume drive replacement in the GUI, and the ability to add to ZFS volumes, which also doubles as the ability to create stacked ZFS volumes, such as a stripe of RAIDZs (RAID 50) or a stripe of mirrors (RAID 10). Documentation lags behind the functionality, we'll get it updated shortly." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download (SHA256): FreeNAS-8.0-RC5-i386.iso (101MB), FreeNAS-8.0-RC5-amd64.iso (105MB).

Josh Paetzel has announced the availability of the fourth and final release candidate for FreeNAS 8.0, a FreeBSD-based operating system providing free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "Announcing the final release candidate planned for the 8.0 release cycle. Release candidate 4 contains both bug fixes and new functionality over previous release candidates and betas. Snapshot functionality has been added; there are features to create periodic snapshot jobs, create one-time snapshots, clone snapshots (which can then be exported as shares like any other data set) and rollback to previous snapshot. VLAN interfaces are fully supported; VLANs can be created from the GUI or from the CLI menu on the console. NFS shares can be set to use the full range of maproot and mapall options." For further details please refer to the release announcement. Download (SHA256): FreeNAS-8.0-RC4-i386.iso (100MB), FreeNAS-8.0-RC4-amd64.iso (103MB).

Josh Paetzel has announced the availability of the third release candidate for FreeNAS 8.0, a FreeBSD-based operating system which provides free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "Release candidate 3 contains both bug fixes and new functionality over previous release candidates and betas. New in 8.0-RC3: there is a volume importer in the storage application, this has been tested in scenarios that are limited to what can be devised in our labs; since the ZFS upgrade procedure is non-reversable, this must be run manually, please do not upgrade your pools unless you are absolutely sure you'll never want to go back to other systems; support for 3ware 6 Gbps RAID controllers has been added, as has the CLI utility tw_cli for managing 3ware RAID controllers; the GUI supports access via HTTP or HTTPS protocols; link aggregations can be created and configured from the CLI interface." Read the release announcement and release notes for more details. Download: FreeNAS-8.0-RC3-i386.iso (98.2MB), FreeNAS-8.0-RC3-amd64.iso (101MB).

Josh Paetzel has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeNAS 8.0, a small FreeBSD-based operating system which provides free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "FreeNAS 8.0-RC2 is now available. We introduced an upgrade via the GUI feature in RC1, so with this release that can be taken advantage of. The ISO images can be used for new installs, and will also offer to upgrade existing installs they detect. The compressed xz images are suitable for the GUI upgrade in RC1, if you are using releases previous to that they are of no value. GUI firmware upgrades are supported, but due to a bug in the interaction between FreeBSD, lighttpd, and Python they work intermittently. There is a workaround which wasn't implemented in time for RC2 - the procedure involves running commands from the CLI shell." See the release announcement and release notes for further details. Download: FreeNAS-8.0-RC2-i386.iso (98.3MB), FreeNAS-8.0-RC2-amd64.iso (99.4MB).

Josh Paetzel has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeNAS 8.0, a tiny FreeBSD-based operating system which provides free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "I am pleased to announce the availability of the first FreeNAS 8.0 release candidate. More than just a huge jump in version number, FreeNAS 8.0 blends FreeBSD 8.x technology, production-ready ZFS, and a web-based GUI with x86/amd64 hardware to make a NAS device available with a lower barrier to entry. This RC provides a number of enhancements over previous beta snapshots that have been released. The show all volumes screen shows volume status if it is a RAID device. The volume wizard allows for creating ZFS volumes with cache, log, or spare devices. Email to 'root', which includes the daily status and security run reports is now aliased to the email address provided for the GUI admin user." See the release announcement and release notes for further information. Download: FreeNAS-8.0-RC1-i386.iso (97.5MB), FreeNAS-8.0-RC1-amd64.iso (101MB).

Warner Losh has announced the availability of the first beta release of FreeNAS 8.0, a FreeBSD-based operating system providing Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "iXsystems is pleased to announce FreeNAS 8.0 beta. FreeNAS 8.0 has undergone a complete rewrite. We've redesigned the GUI to be easier to use and extend. We've upgraded many technologies in the system for improved hardware support, faster I/O, better modularity, and easier upgrades. We trust that you'll find the system easier to use and, in time, much more feature rich than the current FreeNAS offering. The base system has migrated from FreeBSD 7.x and the m0m0wall build system to FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE and NanoBSD. The system start-up has migrated from the older PHP scripts to the standard FreeBSD rc.d boot system." Read the release announcement and release notes for a detailed description of changes in this version. Download: FreeNAS-8r5606-i386.full.iso (77.7MB), FreeNAS-8r5606-amd64.full.iso (78.0MB).

Daisuke Aoyama has announced the release of FreeNAS 0.7.1, a FreeBSD-based operating system which provides free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: The FreeNAS Development Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeNAS 0.7.1. This is a maintenance release of FreeNAS 0.7. It improves the functions and the translations of WebGUI. Also it introduces a few new features. New features: AIO (asynchronous I/O) support in CIFS/SMB - Samba; ATAPI CAM with iSCSI target (device pass-through); custom script in Email Report; serial console support for headless servers/devices; a raw device, ZFS volume for the extent of iSCSI target; iSCSI removable device and control (DVD/tape emulation). Upgrade notes: before upgrade you must always backup your configuration file, your system disk and all your data." Read the rest of the release announcement which include detailed release notes. Download: FreeNAS-i386-LiveCD-0.7.1.iso (72.0MB, SHA256), FreeNAS-amd64-LiveCD-0.7.1.iso (75.4MB, SHA256).

Volker Theile has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeNAS 0.7, a FreeBSD-based operating system providing free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "Today I am proud to announce the release of the first release candidate of version 0.7. It took a really long time to make this version as it is now, but i think it was worth the wait. Majors changes: upgrade to FreeBSD 7.2; include ZFS support; upgrade iSCSI initiator to 2.1.1; replace iSCSI target with istgt; add WOL patch for NVIDIA (nfe) and 3Com (xl); re-factor 'Diagnostics Log' WebGUI; add kernel patches to get ARTiGO A2000 hardware working; upgrade Transmission to 1.61; add 'iperf', a tool to measure maximum TCP and UDP bandwidth...." Read the full release announcement for further details. Download the installable live DVD images from here: FreeNAS-i386-LiveCD-0.7RC1.iso (69.3MB, MD5), FreeNAS-amd64-LiveCD-0.7RC1.iso (72.7MB, MD5).

Volker Theile has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeNAS 0.69, a FreeBSD-based operating system providing free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "This will hopefully be the last release candidate before a stable release can be published. So please test this version and report any problems. Changes: upgrade to FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE; add system firewall, please note that this is only for the local system and not for the network (this will also never be implemented, use pfSense or m0n0wall instead); upgrade Transmission to 1.40; introduce new WebGUI look (also fixes some MSIE rendering bugs); add UPS service WebGUI option to define shut-down mode; add option 'Use sendfile' to 'Services CIFS/SMB Settings'; check if configured port is already used (e.g. UPnP, BitTorrent, DAAP); fix web server security hole...." Read the full release announcement for more details. Download: FreeNAS-i386-LiveCD-0.69RC2.iso (60.0MB, MD5), FreeNAS-amd64-LiveCD-0.69RC2.iso (65.4MB, MD5).

The fourth beta release of FreeNAS 0.69, a FreeBSD-based operating system providing free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services, is ready for testing. From the release notes: "Upgrade to FreeBSD 6.4; upgrade to rsync 3.0.4, PHPMailer 2.2.1, Transmission 1.34; add new attribute 'Temporary directory' to UPnP WebGUI to define a directory used to store temporary transcoded files; modify /etc/rc.d/samba script; add 'Who' combobox to rsync client/local jobs to select user which is used to execute this job; add 'Enable' checkbox to rsync client/local jobs to enable or disable them; fix bug in zoneinfo port. Please note that due to adding many new features which have blown up the image size of FreeNAS, it is not possible to upgrade to the latest 0.69b4 from previous installations if you have chosen the embedded OS/DATA installation mode." Download (MD5): FreeNAS-i386-LiveCD-0.69b4.iso (59.3MB), FreeNAS-amd64-LiveCD-0.69b4.iso (64.7MB).

Volker Theile has announced the third beta release of FreeNAS 0.69, a minimalist, FreeBSD-based operating system providing easy-to-setup Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "Today a new beta version of FreeNAS 0.69 has been released. As soon as FreeBSD 6.4 is released, expect the next and hopefully stable FreeNAS version. Major changes: add nullfs.ko and unionfs.ko kernel modules; display warning message when user is going to delete software RAID or encrypted volume; add 'Recursive', 'Times', 'Compress' and 'Archive' checkboxes to RSYNC client in local WebGUI; add 'Delete algorithm' option in RSYNC client in local WebGUI; add 'Execute now' button in RSYNC client in local WebGUI; add NVIDIA nForce MCP on-board Ethernet support; add audio and video transcoding support to fuppes; increase mfs_root size to 74MB (32-bit) and 80MB (64-bit); CTorrent BitTorrent client has been replaced by Transmission which includes a WebGUI...." More details in the release announcement. Download (MD5): FreeNAS-i386-LiveCD-0.69b3.3821.iso (59.4MB), FreeNAS-amd64-LiveCD-0.69b3.3821.iso (64.5MB).

Volker Theile has announced the release of FreeNAS 0.686.4: "FreeNAS 0.686.4 stable was released today. It is a maintenance release so no new features have been included. Changes: Set subnet mask to 24 per default if DHCP is activated, otherwise WebGUI is not accessible in most networks when changing from DHCP to static; do not validate sync time values when pressing 'Now' on status report page; add ability to add multiple destination email addresses on status report page; display interfaces with status 'associated' in UPnP services WebGUI too; add ability to configure multiple host names for Dynamic DNS service; add patch to do a file system check on root if necessary; display correct share name for mounted ISOs on initial system page; fix CPU graph script error...." More in the release announcement. Download: FreeNAS-i386-liveCD-0.686.4.3374.iso (46.6MB, MD5).

Volker Theile has announced the third and final beta release of FreeNAS 0.686, a FreeBSD-based operating system which provides free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "FreeNAS 0.686b3 has been released. This will hopefully be the last beta before it becomes stable. Major changes: add file system check support during boot process; add attribute 'Store DOS attributes' to Samba and CIFS WebGUI; modify idmap syntax in smb.conf; upgrade Adaptec AACRAID driver to v5.2.0 Build 15317; upgrade WOL patch to version from 25.11.2007; add AFP share support; upgrade netbsd-iscsi (iscsi-target) to 20071130; upgrade PHPMailer to 2.0.0; modify rsync client and local WebGUI to define individual source and destination paths; modify rsync server WebGUI and rc-script, now it is possible to manage rsync shares...." Read the full release announcement for further details. Download: FreeNAS-i386-liveCD-0.686b3.iso (43.7MB, MD5).

The FreeNAS project has announced the first beta release of FreeNAS 0.686, a tiny FreeBSD-based operating system which provides free Network Attached Storage (NAS) services: "Today FreeNAS 0.686b1 has been released. We skipped 0.685RC2 because all its improvements and fixes are also included in 0.686b1. Majors changes: upgrade fusefs-ntfs to 1.1004; upgrade lighttpd to 1.4.18; upgrade netbsd-iscsi to 20070925; refactor GEOM-Eli implementation + WebGUI, now it is possible to add existing encrypted disks and change passwords for a encrypted disk; improve device detection for configuration storage when booting from live CD; update zoneinfo files; add 'System/Packages' WebGUI page to administrate packages (only available in 'full' install mode); add LDAP authentication; add email status report...." Read the detailed changelog for more information. Download: FreeNAS-i386-liveCD-0.686b1.iso (43.9MB, MD5).

The first release candidate of FreeNAS 0.685, a FreeBSD-based operating system which provides free Network-Attached Storage services, has been released for download: "Today FreeNAS 0.685RC1 has been released. Changes: modified build scripts; upgrade PHP to 5.2.4; upgrade lighttpd to 1.4.17; make login procedure more FreeBSD style, now we have 7 consoles available (via Alt-Fx keys), root is auto-login on ttyv0, environment is now set correctly, PATH is also correct; refactor time control used on various WebGUI pages like rsync or scheduled shutdown; restrict file access for FTP users to /mnt only; modified file permissions for configuration files to 0600; added patch for new hardware revision of D-Link DGE-528T PCI card...." See the full release announcement for more details. Download: FreeNAS-i386-liveCD-0.685RC1.iso (41.9MB, MD5).

A new beta release of FreeNAS, a tiny FreeBSD-based operating system providing free Network Attached Storage (NAS) services, is now available. From the release notes and changelog: "Lot's of things has been changed in this release. The proprietary boot sequence has been replaced by the FreeBSD used sys5init system. Due this it is possible to start/stop and restart all services using the console (e.g. /etc/rc.d/lighttpd stop or /etc/rc.d/samba restart). Another change is that Samba shares has to be defined by the user..." Download: FreeNAS-i386-liveCD-0.685b.iso (41.7MB).

FreeNAS is a small FreeBSD-based operating system which provides free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services. A new version 0.66, fixing bugs and adding minor new features, has been released. What's new? "Upgraded to FreeBSD 6.1 RC #12; added Broadcom NetXtreme II PCI/PCIe Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver; added FreeBSD version on the main page; added iSCSI diagnostic page (useful for displaying a list of target names); permit to mount more than 1 partition on the same hard drive; permit to use numbers in the login name; add CIFS buffer configuration option; added smartd daemon on the syslog settings page." For more details please refer to the release notes. Download: FreeNAS-0.66.iso (500MB, MD5).

FreeNAS is a free NAS server based on FreeBSD. It supports CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, RSYNC protocols, local user authentication, and software RAID. FreeNAS 0.65 is based on FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #10. New features in this release: "MS Windows Domain authentication; Apple File Protocol (AFP); Announce FreeNAS services with Zeroconf (howl); iSCSI initator (NOT TESTED)." Read the announcement and the full changelog on its home page and SourceForge. Download: FreeNAS-0.65.iso (29.1MB, MD5).